Jekyll And Hyde Top 10

Question 1

Utterson - ‘O my poor harry jekyll, if I ever read satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend’

Answer 1

1. Way utterson views Hyde - stabbed by devil, satan has given him the seal of approval. Juxtaposing, new friend - utterson suspects something was wrong, stayed quiet - character profile

Question 2

Utterson - ‘I incline cain heresy’ - ‘I let my brother go to the devil in his own way’

Answer 2

cain and able - cain murdered able - implies cain let able go to the devil, jab at religion - foreshadows text, watches Jekyll decline and ignores and only gets involved when he is forced to, juxtapose why would you let them go to the devil, ignore each others sins, don’t help each other.

Question 3

‘I felt younger, lighter, happier in body’ - Jekyll on his transformation

Answer 3

RULE OF 3
symbolism -when we all look at whole we really are, thoughts and feelings we dont share - stop ourselves (moral compass) - don’t let thoughts control us
Hyde - sin, negativity
Jekyll felt free, evil pulls him in and controls him gives him a light compared to Jekyll

Question 4

‘All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde alone in the ranks of mankind, pure evil’

Answer 4

what makes Jekyll and Hyde unique is they were housed in 2 separate bodies which were housed in the same city, if we don’t control our duality, we will become broken and lost characters, Hyde is a slave to evil, Jekyll becomes a slave to hydes evil, admittance we are a mixture of good and bad - which is fine, you cannot be one or the other, don’t want to be COMPLETELY evil.

Question 5

‘I sat in the sun on a bench, animal inside me licking the chops of memory’ - ‘spiritual side a little drowsed’

Answer 5

1. Hyde is dying to come out - animalistic characteristics
   memory of being evil - remembers battering Carew and trampling the girl enjoying it
   Consistent battle between good and evil, they knew it was bad yet can’t help themselves, human nature
2. Religion is casted aside for now

Question 6

‘If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of suffers also’

Answer 6

Jekyll is hated by the reader, don’t know lot about him, highlights the idea of 19th century text, don’t mess with god, try to mess with god, they suffer with trying to create a being which is opposed to god, don’t mess with him

Question 7

‘with ape like fury, trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows with bones audible breaking beneath’

Answer 7

Hyde - Darwin
Hyde is unevolved creature - animalistic characteristics
Unevolved - like a cave person
No human can break bones like this

Question 8

‘The man trampled calmly over the girl and left her screaming on the ground’

Answer 8

Oxymoron - no one calmly steps over a screaming child
Id in full flow, random girl, Hyde doesn’t care who

Question 9

‘The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood like a fire in a forest’

Answer 9

Divide between rich and poor, fire in a forest - stands out like a sore thumb
Class divide home of London home in this time period

Question 10

‘I swear to god I will never set eyes to him again’ - ‘ I am done with him’

Answer 10

Lies, highlight lack of control Jekyll has over Hyde, he lost control from the beginning, slave to hydes desires - he can never turn back
Beginning - lost control of Jekyll
End - lost control of Jekyll, Hyde and everything around him
Don’t mess with god, you cannot create life.